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IDC: Smartphone shipments up 6.9% in Q4 2016, Apple overtakes Samsung for first place

FlowPlay launches Dynasty Football fantasy sports card strategy game

Kickstarter acquires video-streaming community platform Huzza, opens first office outside the U.S.

eBay rebrands Spanish ticket marketplace Ticketbis as ‘StubHub’ 6 months after acquisition

Braintree hires former Lending Club exec John MacIlwaine as CTO

Hoplon kicks off open beta for car combat title Heavy Metal Machines

Zenefits adds compliance and document management apps to its HR platform

Design, Inc. pivots its 99designs-like service to be ODesk for designers

Y Combinator backs the ACLU as the nonprofit challenges Trump

Mobile payment startup Qvivr raises $5 million led by Khosla Ventures

Jagger & Lewis launches Kickstarter for smart dog collar

SoundHound raises $75 million to expand access to its Houndify voice-powered platform

Tech IPOs doubled in the last half of 2016, setting the stage for a robust 2017

Comparably raises $7.25 million to help match employees with the best companies

The Bouqs Company raises $24 million to deliver eco-friendly flowers to your door

Australian archaeological startup raises $679,000 to rebuild ancient sites in VR

Computer History Museum details the lasting legacy of Adobe Photoshop

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Startups: When and how to go vertical

Number of unicorn funding deals plummeted 50% in 2016

Elon Musk is hosting a Hyperloop ‘pod race’ at SpaceX this weekend

Bob Bates starts an old-fashioned text adventure game called Thaumistry

1 week in, Trump’s Silicon Valley buddy list is short

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2016 saw $30.3 billion in gaming mergers, acquisitions, and investments

LendingRobot launches automated hedge fund secured by blockchain tech

Alphabet’s health-tech company Verily gets $800 million from Singapore investment firm Temasek

Ludacris launches Scrabble-like Slang N’ Friendz mobile game

Berlin’s Raisin announces $32 million round to continue its international fintech expansion

Public cloud infrastructure provider Faction raises $11 million

Doctolib raises $28 million to be the top doctor-booking platform in Europe

Connected doorbell startup Ring raises $109 million from DFJ, Goldman Sachs, Qualcomm, others

Cybersecurity startup SentinelOne raises $70 million

Vestiaire Collective raises $62 million to grow its marketplace for premium secondhand fashion

Germany’s Goodgame Studios sheds 200 employees and focuses on core business

TripActions launches its business travel app and unveils a $14.6 million round

EquipmentShare raises $20 million for construction equipment marketplace

Fuse raises $12 million for app building tool that helps designers and developers collaborate

U.S. communications, media, and entertainment deals soared in Q4
